Amy Smithson appeared on PBS Newshour discussing the situation in Syria on August 21, 2013.

September 11, 2013 - 12:00am

The current, rapidly evolving Syria crisis has led U.S. and international news outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio, CNN, Al Jazeera and Reuters to seek comments from the world’s foremost experts in chemical weapons, threat reduction mechanisms and nonproliferation—many of them found at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) and its James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). Below are some highlights of the many media appearances by MIIS and CNS experts over the last three days:

September 11

New York Times – “Chemical Disarmament Hard Even in Peacetime” Amy Smithson, Senior Fellow with CNS in Washington, D.C., and Raymond Zilinskas, MIIS professor and director of the Biological and Chemical Weapons Nonproliferation Program at CNS, are featured prominently in front page article about the challenge of monitoring and securing Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal.